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Pomegranate Health

Welcome to Pomegranate Health — a podcast about the culture of medicine.

You'll hear insights from clinicians, researchers, and advocates as they tackle the most important questions — like how to make difficult clinical and ethical decisions without being influenced by bias, how to communicate better with patients and colleagues, and how to provide healthcare that’s both efficient and fair. For a sampler of the varied themes of professional practice take a listen to Episode 132 and Episode 125.

If you're a Fellow of the RACP, time spent listening can be counted toward your CPD hours. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series can help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.

This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. Plus, the [Journal Club] episodes give RACP researchers a space to talk through their work published in other academic journals.

We’d love to hear your thoughts — feel free to leave a comment on each episode or send feedback and ideas to podcast@racp.edu.au.

Latest episodes

Ep131: The semantics of CPR

In this podcast we discuss some low-value care that has come about from semantic decay in the specificity of the terms “cardiac arrest” and “cardiopulmonary resuscitation”.

Ep130: "The motherhood penalty"

Female representation over to more senior stages of a medical career suffers from a “leaky pipeline”. A major factor in this is the time taken out to raise children but there are practical interventions that can be implemented and biases than need overturning.

[Case Report] 65yo with ST elevation during AF ablation procedure

Not all ST-elevations are created equal. Trainees would benefit from considering a broader number of causes for this presentation.

Ep128: Brushing off the cobwebs

Taking long breaks from medicine for can lead to loss of skills and confidence. Simulation training is an effective way to brush off the cobwebs before returning to practice.

[Case Report] 74yo with dyspnoea after AF ablation

A 74-year-old male presents with shortness of breath less than two weeks after AF ablation. This discussion gives an update of technological interventions for atrial fibrillation and their risks.

Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics

Medical schools in Aotearoa-New Zealand have turbocharged their intake of Māori and Pasifika students but these graduates have not trickled through to the RACP’s training programs in great numbers. We take a look at the culture of training environments and also the recent politicking over Māori self-governance.

[Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation

52-year-old female presenting with clumsiness and paresthesia of the right hand had three weeks prior undergone a suboccipital craniotomy for a Chiari malformation. She had accompanying headaches, but there was a past medical history of migraines and a family history of a Factor V Leiden mutation.

Ep124: Pleural medicine comes of age

Professor Gary Lee established the first dedicated pleural service in the southern hemisphere in 2009. In this podcast he summarises key developments in the management of pleural disease over the last thirty years.

[Case Report] 42yo male with fever following liver transplant

A 42-year-old male transplant patient experiences a devastating fever. His treating clinicians discuss the tangled diagnostic considerations for an immunosuppressed patient.

Ep122: Funding pan-cancer therapies

Tissue-agnostic therapies may be a godsend for people with rare cancers and cancers of unknown origin, but regulatory and funding frameworks haven’t kept up with the scientific revolution.

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